The car most likely to kill you . . . now comes with extra federal tax subsidies?

Photo above - picture of the only "Full Self Driving" Tesla known to exist. Musk launched it into space with a mannequin. What will aliens think when they encounter this thing? That he died after lowering the convertible top?

The Motor Trend link below is hilarious. It begins by cleverly baiting to people to guess if the deadliest American car is something like the Ford Mustang, Corvette, or Jeep Wrangler. I know, I know . . . we all have friends and relatives who hopefully survived crashes in these icons. But the car MOST likely to kill you is . . . (drumroll) . . . a Tesla.

Wait . . . are those things still even federally subsidized? You betcha. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act (which actually INCREASES inflation by subsidizing expensive cars), you can score a Tesla rebate through 2032.

What makes Tesla so deadly? If I had to guess, I would have been wrong again. It’s apparently NOT their tendency to catch fire in a collision and burn at 1,000 degrees. An inferno so hot that even a fire engine fully loaded with water can’t put it out. No . . . it’s the smart alecky drivers, who are constantly experimenting with how far their cars will go with no hands on the steering wheel. Haven’t you seen those TikTok and YouTube videos yet? Shots of Tesla drivers apparently snoozing behind the wheel while their freeway bullet ping pongs down the interstate between the lane stripes?

Even though the Biden administration is responsible for the Inflation Reduction Act fiasco, I have to give them props for one thing. They’ve been suing Elon Musk – since at least 2021 – over the “full self driving” claim for Teslas. Because FSD is nowhere close – legally or operationally – to delivering what it says. This is certainly a more sinister advertising campaign than “Red Bull gives you wiings”. Nobody is jumping off a 10-story building after chugging a Red Bull.

So I’m actually sorry that the government has not yet found a way to halt Tesla’s absurd self driving ads. But then again, there’s a bunch of other court cases still meandering in circles, like Trump election interference and Hunter’s cocaine guns. And people say that the next attorney general could be even WORSE?

To be clear, I am NOT telling people to avoid Tesla. Or any other EV that burns at 1,000 degrees, explodes during a hurricane, sets your garage on fire when you plug it in to recharge, or looks the other way when you take your hands off the wheel for 30 minutes. In America, buying a crappy car is a matter of personal choice, and our constitutional right. I think it's in the 1,956th amendment (the year Ford Edsels hit the showrooms).

But we shouldn’t be jacking up America's $35 Trillion national debt by subsidizing those death traps. And then smirking and lying that it’s all to reduce inflation.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

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